Sydney's iconic New Year's Eve fireworks display is facing cancellation due to a potential strike by train workers. Police have expressed concerns about public safety if transportation is disrupted, as hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the event and need to return home afterwards.
Fireworks light up the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge during an early light show before the midnight New Year fireworks, December 31, 2014. — Reuters picas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use code SYDNEY , Dec 20 — Sydney New Year’s fireworks, one of the world’s most spectacular celebrations of the calendar change, face being scrapped because of industrial action by train workers, police said today.
Up to 250,000 people are expected to come into Sydney to see the show, and they need to return home afterwards, said New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb. “If trains are not available and people cannot leave the city, I have very large concerns of the risk that will create to the public,” she told reporters.The state’s premier, Chris Minns, has rejected unions’ “exorbitant” pay rise demands, with a hearing scheduled next week in the country’s industrial relations tribunal.
The state rail, tram and bus union’s secretary, Toby Warnes, said it had no plan to inconvenience people, accusing the state government of “scaring the people of New South Wales because it wants to pursue a particular industrial strategy”. — AFP
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